Jordan Belfort

It's not working.

My life is a disaster.

I know I'll make money again as a salesman.

I'm not going to end up poor because I know how to make money.

But just the idea of trying to be empowered while locked up was just too much.

And in those moments, and the worst moments were at night, when you're alone with your thoughts and you're in your bed and you're lying there, all the mistakes you made, the people that you hurt, all the stuff.

up, you did wrong.

It's terrible, right?

And in those moments when I felt like I couldn't go on, couldn't keep writing, I closed my eyes and I'd imagine the faces of my two children.

And that was for me, that was my why.

Like, why do I want to come back from failure?

Why do I want to write a book?

There's many ways to go out and succeed again after you get locked up for a couple of years, you can make money.

But I wanted to do something, you know, I guess that was about, I didn't want to hide from my mistakes.

And I had this idea that I was going to like tell this story that I thought could be pretty amazing once I started writing it, but I just couldn't write it.

So anytime I felt like I couldn't go on, I said, you know, my children, like just, I let them down.

I'd hurt them.

I'd embarrass them.

And I, you know, not that they didn't love me anymore, right?

I'm super close with my kids.